Speaker Mata Prasad Pandey has disqualified membership of 18 legislators of Vidhan Sabha under anti-defection law.
Special secretary UP Vidhan Sabha Pramod Kumar Joshi said that these legislators were barred under anti-defection law after they joined new parties. The decision was taken after issuing notices to the respective legislators and they failed to justify their switch over, he said.
The members who were disqualified are: Rajesh Tripathi (June 11, 2016), Vijay Bahadur Yadav (June 17), Dilnawaz Khan, Nawab Kazim Ali Khan, and Md Muslim (August 10), Sanjay Pratap Jaiswal, Vijay Kumar Dubey, Bala Prasad Awasthi and Madhuri Verma (August 11), Mahavir Singh Rana (11 September), Om Kumar, Harvinder Kumar Sahni alias Romi Sahani and Roshan lal Verma (12 September), Ayodhya Prasad Pal and Dharam Singh Saini (21 September), Rajni Tiwari (2 October), Memtesh Shakya (4 December), and Gainda lal Chaudhry (15 december).